I can't see the youtube... But basically, you've got it backwards. Ballistic trajectories for long range are fired non-vertical. Vertical launch is for close range. Longest range is around 35-38 degrees from vertical (accounting for air resistance).
Sorry, but physics 101 is insufficient here, since a rocket is different from a bullet and enters its ballistic flight phase only after the boost phase has ended.
If you were talking about an artillery shell, you'd be right, but things are different for a rocket that accelerates for quite a bit longer than a fraction of a second.
In the US(not where I am from btw), they may well be prudish about swearwords on TV, but there is always cable, and at least I can insult any religion, person, government, hold any opinion or ideology I chose and spread my beliefs as much as I like without fear of persecution.
The thing is - at the time the first amendment was conceived, you couldn't go around insulting random people without being challenged to a duel at some point. Then you could either decline it and be proven a coward and laughing stock, or accept it and have to back up your insults with your life.
Unfortunately, this natural check on FOS was outlawed.
The Producers had to change the swastika to some sort of infinity symbol.
Actually, they changed it a pretzel. And only on the flags shown outside the theater, inside (where it's clearly and unambiguously art) I believe they're showing the real thing.
Here's the official website with some footage from the actual performance:
You can't deny that there are substantial limitations on FOS in Germany.
So? At least we can say "fuck", "shit", and of course "Scheisse" on the radio and on TV and not get fined half a bajillion bucks by the governmental communications authority.
I know the Nazis were initially claiming to protect people, and collected guns off them since the common people didn't need them.
The Nazis loosened the gun laws in Germany for the "common" (i.e. anyone not considered Jewish) people, if anything. They were preparing for war, chrissakes. You don't want to go to a war where you possible have to draft anyone able to walk without the general populace being at least somewhat familiar with firearms.
Actually they are teaching not to give breaths now but the US is usually a few years behind. And I am certified.
I think I've heard the same. There's still plenty of oxygen in the air in the lungs (a few minutes' worth), and chest compressions will provide some air exchange anyway. The biggest problem of someone with ventricular fibrillation or asystole is that there's not enough blood flow to the brain.
So in Germany if I am certified in CPR and I see someone not breathing, I can screw up CPR and kill them without being charged for negligence?
Not for negligence, only for intentionally doing so. Which is quite a bit of a hurdle.
How many times?
Just once. The guy's dead, remember? And he'd be dead too even if you hadn't tried and bungled and attempt at CPR, but his chance of survival was much greater by your doing so. That's why there's no point in charging you with anything.
What is unethical about getting people to testify against themselves?
The thumb screws, branding irons, electric shocks, waterboarding, forced sleep withdrawal and various other creative measures that are usually involved in "getting" someone to testify against himself.
If by "brainwash" you mean parents cannot teach their children that Jesus Christ is their Savior who died for their sins, then you're wrong. This is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but there is no "freedom" to force your audience to listen to you.
Not to mention The Producers having to sacrifice their story in order t screen in Germany.
Well, at least the songs that play on the radio around here contain all the actual four letter words. What exactly did they have to change about "The Producers"?
Ironic that they moved from a country whose goventment expictly suports religion (there is a tax to suport the church and parties with christian in the name) to one with a separation of church and state.
Oh, by the latter you mean that "one nation under God"? The one that has "In God We Trust" on its currency? That's some separation of church and state. I'm impressed.
Ironic that they moved from a country whose goventment expictly suports religion (there is a tax to suport the church and parties with christian in the name)
It's not really a tax since you can easily avoid it by not being a member of one of the religious organisations that opt to use the government as their collection agency (some do, others use more old-fashioned ways of funding themselves). And the part about money going to any kind of political party is just utter BS.
Well, not all the information in wikipedia is accurate. The above is one example. In Germany, for example, failing to comply with the duty to rescue can get you fined or land you in jail for up to a year, according to their penal code.
Interesting. So you're saying that more than two parties have been banned in West Germany, and/or that that happened less than fifty years ago? Care to elaborate on that?
Germany persecutes right-wing parties.
Please elaborate. Which right-wing parties have been successfully "persecuted"? Last I heard, quite a few of them are still around. Heck, two years ago I saw one of their demonstrations, with the police protecting them from the left-wing brawl squad.
In fact, it persecutes them so much that an incredibly large megafuckton of police officers and undercover agents infiltrate every one, and then produce more extremist material, thereby creating the very condition they are "investigating".
They don't seem to be going a very good job then since all three Na^H^H ultra-right-wing parties (DVU/REP/NPD) are still around.
When the government initiated its court action two years ago, virtually every German politician joined the chorus of those demanding a ban on the NPD...
So police and other authorities fucked up royally, and the court slapped them down hard and rightfully. Doesn't sound like persecution to me, just the court doing its job.
Politician can "demand" a lot things, especially if they believe it'll get them more votes. What actually happens is another can of worms entirely.
The amendments the Nazis made to the law were not repealed until 1994.
Actually, the law was reviewed (and loosened) twice, in 1969 and again in 1974. See the wikipedia article.
An attempt was made seven years ago.
And what became of it? Exactly nothing. That party still exists (it is one of the three would-be Nazi parties that occasionally manage to end up on the ballot) and is happily tearing itself apart. It stands that the only two parties _ever_ to be banned were one direct successor of the NSDAP and the KPD, a communist party that was basically a puppet of Moscow. Both of these bans happened over fifty years ago.
I don't know that much about German,
I gave a link to to a dictionary site. "Angehöriger" means "member", "next of kin" (in case of family), or simply "affiliate(d)".
So Staatsangehörige literally means "belonging to the State," I take it?
It means "being a member of", "being affiliated with". Like "belonging" to a club, a group, or something similar, not "belonging" as in property. The translation of "subject" would be "Untertan", which clearly signals an inferior position (unter = under).
And the link you sent me is translating Angehöriger to mean a variety of familial/kinship relationships---one of which is "a dependent."
Yes, in case of family relations. However, basically any of your closer family qualifies as being your "Angehörige" - parents, spouse, siblings, children. Not all of those are necessarily your dependents. It really is more like your next of kin - you know, the people you want notified should something happen to you.
Perhaps you could fix the Wikipedia article with your knowledge of this word.
The Nazi anti-homosexuality law was kept on the books in West Germany until 1994, as but one example. (East Germany got rid of it in 1950.)
That law popped into existence in 1872. That was before Hitler was even born.
And Germany nowadays still unpopular bans political parties, movements, and speech as zealously as the Nazis did.
Oh, yeah, right. That's why I find 20-odd parties on my ballot every election, including several different flavors of commies, Nazis, fundies and other assorted nutcases. Can you even name the last fscking party that was actually banned in Germany? I'll help you, that was over half a century ago. Can you name the total number of parties that were banned in West Germany, ever? I'll help you, too: It's a very, very small number. So small that using the plural form almost isn't justified.
And one of the most interesting things is that the modern German term for a "citizen" is Staatsangehörige, which literally means "subject of the State" and not "citizen."
Nope. It literally means "someone who's affiliated with a certain state".
At the end of the Nazi regime, guess which term went away? Not Staatsangehörige, but Reichsbürger.
Yes. Duh. Guess why they wanted to throw out anything that made Germans think they'd have a "Reich" (empire) or something. Might it have something to do with two German states calling themselves "Reich" of some sort being involved in not one, but two World Wars? They'd rather want the Germans to have rather loose ties with their country, to keep nationalism from popping up yet again.
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Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter (plus its moons). Maybe Mercury, if you get the chance. Possibly you could get a glance at the ISS, too.
Oh, screw that if any cool comets happen to pop up, of course.
Plus, the whole point of this approach would be that you could engineer antibodies on demand for the new disease, and take them before it kills you.
That sounds like passive immunization to me. A really, really old concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_immunization
So how is this approach "new"?
I mean, Vegas, that was where you had to rescue an android (or rather - its parts) from cyborg robot-nappers ... and fought the terrifying Scorpitron.
Earth isn't worth distinguishing?
Nah. Boring. And mostly harmless.
I can't see the youtube... But basically, you've got it backwards. Ballistic trajectories for long range are fired non-vertical. Vertical launch is for close range. Longest range is around 35-38 degrees from vertical (accounting for air resistance).
Sorry, but physics 101 is insufficient here, since a rocket is different from a bullet and enters its ballistic flight phase only after the boost phase has ended.
If you were talking about an artillery shell, you'd be right, but things are different for a rocket that accelerates for quite a bit longer than a fraction of a second.
The thing is - at the time the first amendment was conceived, you couldn't go around insulting random people without being challenged to a duel at some point. Then you could either decline it and be proven a coward and laughing stock, or accept it and have to back up your insults with your life.
Unfortunately, this natural check on FOS was outlawed.
Actually, they changed it a pretzel. And only on the flags shown outside the theater, inside (where it's clearly and unambiguously art) I believe they're showing the real thing.
Here's the official website with some footage from the actual performance:
http://www.admiralspalast.de/the_producers.aspx
And here are some pictures:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42562-5.html
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42562-6.html
And those are the pretzel flags used for advertising:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-42562-10.html
You can't deny that there are substantial limitations on FOS in Germany.
So? At least we can say "fuck", "shit", and of course "Scheisse" on the radio and on TV and not get fined half a bajillion bucks by the governmental communications authority.
The Nazis loosened the gun laws in Germany for the "common" (i.e. anyone not considered Jewish) people, if anything. They were preparing for war, chrissakes. You don't want to go to a war where you possible have to draft anyone able to walk without the general populace being at least somewhat familiar with firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany#The_1938_German_Weapons_Act
That's still faster than freezing or starving to death.
I think I've heard the same. There's still plenty of oxygen in the air in the lungs (a few minutes' worth), and chest compressions will provide some air exchange anyway. The biggest problem of someone with ventricular fibrillation or asystole is that there's not enough blood flow to the brain.
Not for negligence, only for intentionally doing so. Which is quite a bit of a hurdle.
How many times?
Just once. The guy's dead, remember? And he'd be dead too even if you hadn't tried and bungled and attempt at CPR, but his chance of survival was much greater by your doing so. That's why there's no point in charging you with anything.
The thumb screws, branding irons, electric shocks, waterboarding, forced sleep withdrawal and various other creative measures that are usually involved in "getting" someone to testify against himself.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but there is no "freedom" to force your audience to listen to you.
No, there was no such case. The garden gnomes in question were explicitly declared legal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8163918.stm
Not to mention The Producers having to sacrifice their story in order t screen in Germany.
Well, at least the songs that play on the radio around here contain all the actual four letter words. What exactly did they have to change about "The Producers"?
Oh, by the latter you mean that "one nation under God"? The one that has "In God We Trust" on its currency? That's some separation of church and state. I'm impressed.
It's not really a tax since you can easily avoid it by not being a member of one of the religious organisations that opt to use the government as their collection agency (some do, others use more old-fashioned ways of funding themselves). And the part about money going to any kind of political party is just utter BS.
So it should be ok to let your kids freeze or starve by not putting clothes on them or not feeding them?
That'll qualify as art and you are free to do that. (German StGB 86, Abs. 3, if you want to look it up).
Any other rumors about German law that need dispelling?
Well, not all the information in wikipedia is accurate. The above is one example. In Germany, for example, failing to comply with the duty to rescue can get you fined or land you in jail for up to a year, according to their penal code.
I'm surprised that the USA does not already have a bill like this.
Given the difference in common law and civil law thinking, it's hardly surprising.
In other countries (e.g. Germany) helping people in need is mandatory.
That's because Germany is your role-model of a system based on civil law.
Interesting. So you're saying that more than two parties have been banned in West Germany, and/or that that happened less than fifty years ago? Care to elaborate on that? Germany persecutes right-wing parties.
Please elaborate. Which right-wing parties have been successfully "persecuted"? Last I heard, quite a few of them are still around. Heck, two years ago I saw one of their demonstrations, with the police protecting them from the left-wing brawl squad.
In fact, it persecutes them so much that an incredibly large megafuckton of police officers and undercover agents infiltrate every one, and then produce more extremist material, thereby creating the very condition they are "investigating".
They don't seem to be going a very good job then since all three Na^H^H ultra-right-wing parties (DVU/REP/NPD) are still around.
When the government initiated its court action two years ago, virtually every German politician joined the chorus of those demanding a ban on the NPD...
So police and other authorities fucked up royally, and the court slapped them down hard and rightfully. Doesn't sound like persecution to me, just the court doing its job.
Politician can "demand" a lot things, especially if they believe it'll get them more votes. What actually happens is another can of worms entirely.
Actually, the law was reviewed (and loosened) twice, in 1969 and again in 1974. See the wikipedia article.
An attempt was made seven years ago.
And what became of it? Exactly nothing. That party still exists (it is one of the three would-be Nazi parties that occasionally manage to end up on the ballot) and is happily tearing itself apart. It stands that the only two parties _ever_ to be banned were one direct successor of the NSDAP and the KPD, a communist party that was basically a puppet of Moscow. Both of these bans happened over fifty years ago.
I don't know that much about German,
I gave a link to to a dictionary site. "Angehöriger" means "member", "next of kin" (in case of family), or simply "affiliate(d)".
So Staatsangehörige literally means "belonging to the State," I take it?
It means "being a member of", "being affiliated with". Like "belonging" to a club, a group, or something similar, not "belonging" as in property. The translation of "subject" would be "Untertan", which clearly signals an inferior position (unter = under).
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=untertan&relink=on
And the link you sent me is translating Angehöriger to mean a variety of familial/kinship relationships---one of which is "a dependent."
Yes, in case of family relations. However, basically any of your closer family qualifies as being your "Angehörige" - parents, spouse, siblings, children. Not all of those are necessarily your dependents. It really is more like your next of kin - you know, the people you want notified should something happen to you.
Perhaps you could fix the Wikipedia article with your knowledge of this word.
Maybe ... if I get around to doing so.
That law popped into existence in 1872. That was before Hitler was even born.
And Germany nowadays still unpopular bans political parties, movements, and speech as zealously as the Nazis did.
Oh, yeah, right. That's why I find 20-odd parties on my ballot every election, including several different flavors of commies, Nazis, fundies and other assorted nutcases. Can you even name the last fscking party that was actually banned in Germany? I'll help you, that was over half a century ago. Can you name the total number of parties that were banned in West Germany, ever? I'll help you, too: It's a very, very small number. So small that using the plural form almost isn't justified.
And one of the most interesting things is that the modern German term for a "citizen" is Staatsangehörige, which literally means "subject of the State" and not "citizen."
Nope. It literally means "someone who's affiliated with a certain state".
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=angeh%F6riger&relink=on
At the end of the Nazi regime, guess which term went away? Not Staatsangehörige, but Reichsbürger.
Yes. Duh. Guess why they wanted to throw out anything that made Germans think they'd have a "Reich" (empire) or something. Might it have something to do with two German states calling themselves "Reich" of some sort being involved in not one, but two World Wars? They'd rather want the Germans to have rather loose ties with their country, to keep nationalism from popping up yet again.
I have expanded upon your method - I can cure people of their criminal impulses by changing the measurements of their head!
Hate to break it to you, but Terry Pratchett beat you to the idea of Reverse Phrenology.
Society is entirely irrelevant. As long as the individual benefits, society benefits. Rising tide and all that.
(Hey, pretending to be a libertarian is kind of fun once you pick up the lingo and cast logic aside for a few seconds.)